Toni Kenyon
DIY Containers for your Herbs
Growing herbs is a great way to begin your gardening journey. Herbs are easy to grow and you don't even need a garden! As long as they...
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Toni Kenyon
Mar 17, 20214 min read
Eight Reasons You Should Be Growing Your Own Herbs
My love affair with herbs began many years ago--more than I care to remember. Many people think of herbs as plants simply used to enhance...
Toni Kenyon
Mar 11, 20215 min read
How I use worms to recycle my kitchen waste into fantastic fertiliser:
aka - Why I love my worm farm If I can find a way to close the loop on my own waste and keep that waste out of a land fill, then I'm all...
Toni Kenyon
Mar 5, 20214 min read
Why morning is the best time in the garden
I walked out of the living room and slipped my feet into my low cut ‘gumboots’. Gumboots are ‘Wellington boots’ if you’re in the United...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 22, 20214 min read
9 Best Tips for Easy Compost
Compost is the main-stay of the no-dig garden. I could have headlined this post "All the dirt on the dirt!" Without a good layer of...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 19, 20214 min read
The beginners guide to no-dig vegetable gardening
Why did I choose no-dig gardening for my small urban plot? Mainly because we had no top soil and a scraped bare patch of land to begin...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 16, 20215 min read
My Top 5 no-dig garden mentors
How many of these amazing people do you know? These are the people who have influenced the way that I garden, they have changed my life...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 11, 20214 min read
Who LifeLoveandLettuce.com is for
Do you want to eat healthy, home grown food, but you just don't think it's as easy as everyone says it is? I got tired of looking around...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 9, 20213 min read
5 Things I Want To Help You With
My blog exists to help people who live on a small piece of land grow plenty of healthy food right in their own back yard. 1. Empower you...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 8, 20212 min read
February in a backyard food forest
We've been harvesting peaches like mad people over the last week. Over 12 kg stewed and now in the freezer! We stewed 4kgs of plums as...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Preserving the Peach Harvest
There's nothing like channeling your inner Laura Ingalls-Wilder... If peach season doesn't do it, nothing will :-) I have a variety of...
Toni Kenyon
Jan 19, 20213 min read
How do I turn my lawn into garden?
I’m a great believer in growing food, not lawns. It’s incredible the amount of resources that go into keeping a blanket of green growing...
Toni Kenyon
Dec 30, 20201 min read
Getting sober
So, it's the day before New Year's Eve here in New Zealand. Life continues on with very little thought for the pandemic that continues to...
Toni Kenyon
Aug 1, 20202 min read
Backyard Chicken Capers
I’ve wanted chickens forever!
Not for their eggs or their meat, but for their assistance in the vegetable garden.
Toni Kenyon
Jul 14, 20201 min read
Gratitude for another sober day
Today, I am 19 years sober. Even to write that is such a miracle. I don't share this to brag...
Toni Kenyon
May 25, 20204 min read
6 things I learned about me and my garden during the Covid lockdown
Some days it felt like I’d woken up in an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Early on, when we learned that we should wear masks and gloves...
Toni Kenyon
Sep 9, 20192 min read
Magic in putting pen to paper
I say it over and over again and I will continue to say it until I draw my last breath... There is magic in putting pen to paper....
Toni Kenyon
Sep 6, 20192 min read
Feeding the earth
Feeding the earth feels very much to me like feeding the soul. Without growing my soil, there is nothing for the beautiful flowers,...
Toni Kenyon
Sep 4, 20192 min read
Love is...all things melodic
It's fair to say when you grow up with a Vox amp and a double bass in your bedroom there's always going to be something musical in your...
Toni Kenyon
Sep 2, 20191 min read
Why my Passion Pulse is so important
There's not a day goes by that I don't find myself scribbling something down in my Passion Pulse. It's my private journal and it's also...
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